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The crucifying of the world
The crucifying of the world by the cross of Christ with a preface to the nobles, gentlemen, and all the rich, directing them how they may be richer / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R. W. for Nevill Simmons, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Crucifying of the world, BY The Cross of CHRIST.
GAL. 6. 14. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.
GAL. 6. 14. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Iesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.
SECT. I.
EVER since mankind had a being upon earth, the malicious apostate spirits have been their enemies: If it was the will of our Creator that we should be Militaries in our Innocency, and keep our standing, and attain our Confirmation and Glory by a Victory, or else come short of it if we lost the day: No wonder then that our lapsed condition must be militant, and that by conquest we must obtain the Crown. But there is a great deal of difference between these combats. In our first state we were the sole Combatants against the Enemy our selves, and we fought in ⟨p. 2⟩